Nigeria at 48 no news, same old story, FAILED PROMISES, DASHED HOPES and an ever increasing deceitful group of people (a cabal actually) who constitute themselves into a government against the will of the people.
Once upon a time Nigerians would look forward to the independence day celebration and draw from it inferences to help predict the tone of whoever is in government and also remember the people who had at one time or the other fought for the independence and unity of the largest African nation (at least for now). This was so because most times Nigerians were not very sure about the intention of people in government. But these days it is so easy because, from the very onset you can tell where the RULERS are heading from the way they got into government.
Coincidentally, while ruminating over and about the Nigerian question, I bumped into a book authored by Dr. Miles Munroe, in which he explored the question of purpose. He established how Purpose rules over everything "the very essence and reason for existence, the ends for which the means existed", then I came to the conclusion that the big problem
Why
- Largest Black African Nation (with the least contribution to world development)
- The world’s 7th largest supplier of crude Oil (yet without a functional petrochemical refinery and insufficient fuel for our tanks)
- 36 States (only a means of expanding the opportunities for their likes to hold on to power)
- Over 700 tribes (forced into one national identity)
- Rich arable land (yet incapable of supporting or producing enough food for her population)
- Blessed with a people that possess an unusual drive for success (yet lacking good schools for her teaming population)
- Have stayed together even after a civil war (but managing to nurse a relationship with her federating units)
- Biggest contributor of Men and Resources to Peace keeping operations in the continent (yet unable to tackle the Militants in the Niger Delta Region)
- About the largest gap between the rich and the poor amidst abundance and opulence (with over 60% of her people impoverished and wallowing in abject poverty)
- Embraced privatization (but sold only to a few overlords fronting for those in government-past and present)
These are but a few of the inexhaustible list of features that defines the uniqueness of our great motherland, where constant repression of opposition and oppression of the middle and lower class is order of the day with a deliberate intention to force the re-emerging middle class into extinction.
Just the other day the Central Bank (C.B.N.) governor was sensitizing the nation in preparation for the deployment of the next face of Economic and financial reforms (RE-DENOMINATION) as approved by the former president only for him to receive a message to appear before the new government to explain why he must deploy the next phase without fresh approval.
The current financial crises rocking the world (USA, Europe and Japan particularly) was predicted to have serious negative impact on Nigeria’s Economy whose stock market is still in shock following a sudden price depreciation which coincided with the summer holiday period making evident the gluttony of the rich to enjoy themselves outside the shores of the country even at the obvious detriment of the mass whose blood and sweat they exploit to generate these resources. As one commentator rightly puts it “despite all the foreign trips embarked upon by the ruling class, they still have not learnt any tangible lesson to bring back home for our national development” and I am tempted to add they only learn better ways to steal more money and recharge their appetite for illegality.
Perhaps the entire nation should in their little corners resolve to make a little difference even as the
Again I say let us seek to define the purpose of our corporate existence otherwise we have no need to have being in the first place.
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